??? Odd, your above reply was to me but in the "quote box" the message was from a customer, see below
whoops. sometimes things don't computer. lol Ha, I thought my Once Upon a Time in Hollywood screen grab of a possible Brian Wilson/Pet Sounds reference needed a OUATIH-style update to clarify things!
Tommy James and the Shondells .....-GREAT music! Paul and the Raider.....-pretty good to so so music The Monkees ????? Only Ok to good songs written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King, Neil Diamond , Boyce and Hart and such. Otherwise,...mostly found them laughable.
The music in all of QTs films has always been very California. This is unfortunate for me, but accurate. When I went to California from Cleveland say, late 70s, and was shocked at how, in my opinion, behind they were on the music scene. Being a music nut I was constantly searching on the radio for the progressive rock station or the good/real Jazz station,..Motown even. Nope. Nothing! I was in LA for a week and is seemed they were still trying to grow out of the Beach Boys, light Pop, and disco era. I was shocked!
And apparently black people love him, despite his use of adjectives. I guess they see the silliness of it, that some uber PC types cant.
What would you call someone who openly discusses dead N storage with relish and vigor? A liberal? BTW. Thanks. first time anyone on here has called me PC. Theres a first time for everything. Its sunny out. My neck needs some sun. I could never quite get as red necked as tarrantin0. Thankfully I do love pulp fiction though. I just don't like double standards. If kind hearts and coronets is considered racist then goodness knows what that makes QT movies. 1930's Teutonic?
When Spike Lee criticized Django for what ever the self-righteous Lee said Samuel Jackson responded with, "It's just a f*#king movie!" entertainment isn't life
Back when radio playlists were controlled by station and there were a multitude of regional “hits”. I miss that. I was just a kid, but when I moved from the NYC area to Ohio, the difference was stark. It makes sense to me that Tarantino would tap into California popular music of the 60s and 70s.
We finally watched this movie last night. I appreciated all the 60’s TV references, the use of actors from that era in bit parts, actors of that era as characters (Steve McQueen, James Stacy, Wayne Maunder, Sam Wanamaker, Connie Stevens etc.). The resemblance some of the actors had to the the real people was amazing. And I’m sure there are characters and people I missed. Can’t define exactly what I expected but ultimately I found the movie disappointing. A spark was missing. Maybe the hype machine had been cranked up too high
I feel the "spark, (that), was missing" is that the film was way too long. A good twenty minutes, at least, should have been cut out. There were a couple of scenes that brought the film to a screaching halt as well as some that were just way too long. I was a film student, then editor for a awhile,....and timing is so important. Please know,..... I love QT movies and respect his work. But when a director gets big, and begins to think he can do no wrong, this happens. I found the film to be a bit to fond of itself. The simple fact that it's two hours and forty minutes long is pretentious. I have watched several films that I love that are put out on DVD with the directors commentary over the soundtrack as well as the deleted scenes comments. It is very difficult to cut some scenes that you love. But like music, in the end, it's timing that keeps the viewer interested.
So did I, the actress looked more like Joey than Connie. It wasn’t until I read through the extensive cast list that I discovered the truth
Good point, been thinking that. QT movies usually have depth and detail, some of which I don’t catch first time around
